Anthropic's Tuesday announcement that it's giving its Claude model a new "computer use" capability has the AI world buzzing. Why it matters: This doesn't mean that bots have busted free of the chat box to run loose on the desktop and in the browser — but that day looks much closer,

Anthropic is making the agentic abilities available through its application programming interface (API) for its most powerful multimodal large language model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, from today. The company also announced a new and improved version of a smaller model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, today.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available as a beta for developers to try out now. It can view a screen, move a cursor, click buttons, and even input text. It's not perfect, but neither are you!